[HPforGrownups] Do Animagi choose their forms? and the change over to yahoo groups

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10905

Pam Hugonnet wrote:

> Really?   Is this so?   Do you have a reference in the book where it says
> so?  I'm curious because I had always imagined that
> that there was some degree of choice involved.

Well, I got that impression from JKR saying that if she were an animagus, she
hoped she'd be an otter, because she likes otters. The implication was strong
that no choice is involved. It sounds like your animal is sort of a reflection
or distillation of your personality. As I recall, she said this at some e-chat,
when someone asked her about what she'd be.

> I guess I've come up with this theory because
> McGonagal doesn't seem very cat-like to me; I figured that a cat was her
> choice, not her destiny.

She seems tremendously cat-like to me! Hmm.

--Amanda